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VOLUME 2, NUMBER 3 MICHAEL IVERS The people of this country have elected Richard Nixon. He now mist implement a Vietnam policy and concurrently an economic policy. And, of course, he will have to choose a black policy. Future policy toward the black situation in America could be the most vital step ever taken to decide the fate of America. For it will eventually result in peaceful integration (possibly peaceful segregation, but that is doubtful) or civil war. And what of the situation of the blacks in university life? The typical reply might accurately be "I didn't know we had one." That kind of attitude is dangerous. Obviously there is a black situation at DePaul, or the Black Student Union (BSU) would not have .been formed last May. The president of the BSU is James Hammond, who joined the BSU because he had "joined other organizations, but always felt like a duck out of water." This is really not hard to imagine if one can just for a moment empathize with Hammond or other black people. "I joined the BSU to fulfill myself. Black people have been separated from white people. To include a black person in an organization is to accept him for what he is. The BSU does this." IJoes this mean that a black person finds it hard to be himself, to feel human, in a white organization, in a white society? Maybe. Erwin Mayfield, the vice-president of the BSU, said: "I felt as a black student a need for something to relate to." The BSU has given all of its members that greatly needed sense of identity, A sense of identity that the black person is finally receiving in the "black power movement" after waiting for hundreds of years. A "black power movement* that Still surrounded by the same white-washed walls of the past, however, few tactics of co-existence remain. Hammond feels that "what we're really trying to do is to change the attitude that black people have toward other black people and society. The system separates the educated black people from the uneducated black people and from white people. The BSU is attempting to illustrate the fact that blacks can create, that blacks can work together, and more effectively as one. We are getting outside activities going in order to develop the mind of the black person. The BSU contributes to the movement of raising second-class citizens to first-class citizens. The purpose of activities like the upcoming Miss Sweetheart of BSU contest is to establish pride in the black person. Possibly more white students will see the black student working, and thus their respect for him will be strengthened." |t is natural that the educated black be apart from both the uneducated black and the white. Our present social structure has already forced the degree of separation. The BSU may very well be achieving its goals, but is it actually gaining the respect it desires Is the "black power black pride movement" gaining the respect of the white people in general, or are the wjites being turned off by such movements? Is the white man afraid that the black man may achieve his deserved equality—that he will get his power? White people keep crying that the black man wants too much, that he doesn't know when to stop, that he's only hurting himself with the "black power movement." The truth of the matter is that white people brings black people together and eventually teachers, black curricula, et al., the replies ahead to equality with the white man, not a "black power movement" that necessarily calls for violence. a journal of issues and events for depaul university Black vs. White are scared. And the majority fear a figure the BSU alone, not making accusations, etc. that is so remote that he is no more than This would be the best way to foster the abstract stereotype of a George Wallace communication. The BSU asks white students rally. to let the blacks do their own thing, and it But in an interpretation of the black asks for the support of its activities (dances, movement today, the "We Shall Overcome" lectures, etc.) by the white student. We wish simplicity of integration-segregation is support as we support white activities, e.g. valid. For Hammond, "This is not a Biafra. We don't show up at some of the black-white clear-cut question. These dances because things there aren't suitable concepts are no longer adequate. The world to black students." is already separate." This fact comes out J^oes racism pervade the BSU or black clearly in elections. Usually one politician movements in general? "Constitutionally concentrates on the black votes (he's usually no," according to Hammond. "The BSU is the Bridgeport-trademarked incumbent who needed to provide the atmosphere for black insures their jobs), while the other one people. White people propogate racism. The centers on the white suburban backlash vote, system gives us racism. White organizations Although many times it is the poor and allow the black person to participate, but middle-class whites who hate the black man they don't give him the necessary conditions more than the rich white, because the black to work under. According to the constitution person is a more immediate danger to him. a white could join the BSU (he would be Hammond continued by explaining his own voted on by all members, and a two-thirds conflict of roles: "At DePaul I am an majority vote would be necessary for him to be admitted it is the same for all aspiring members), but he would not feel welcome or be let to feel welcome. For integrationist, at home I am a segregationist. I think that almost every study can identify with this difficult and complex situation. I am optimistic about the development of the already separated black Racism (racism means a feeling of person. Dealing with the present situation superiority of one race over another) is my primary concern." This is exactly because black people never think that they're what organizations like the BSU are doing, better than whites, only equal to them. Don't Mayfield is "not really for integration, confuse racism with prejudice." It's time for black people to do their own The Chicago public school boycott mounts thing." Lindsay Robinson "would have gone by the day and as it does, the questions and to an all-black school if I had to do it distinctions become much more critical, again." Ron Douglas believes that everyone Decentralization of the school system has has a "right to integrate" but that he is a become the major thrust of the N.Y. Ocean "Black American, in that order. That's the Hill-Brownsville boycott which has been way it was presented to me.® And no one deadlocked since the beginning of the school could honestly deny that either. year. Jn response to University actions on last Hammond May's BSU demands for more black range from "no comment to mere tokenism. Concerning an Interracial Council of Students at DePaul, Hammond produces an interesting and important answer: "No. Any organization that has had white people in it has never done anything significant to help black people." The case is quite similar to "Upward Bound," the federally financed education program: "White goals This may be telling the integrationist where to go. But every word is solidly sensible. For the inner-city black, what can the suburban honkie teach him about love. It's easy for the white man, who knows who his parents are, who krows where his next meal is coming from, who sleeps in a bed rather than on the floor, who doesn't have to worry about discrimination, who doesn't have to kill rats every night before bed— it's easy for him to preach love. He doesn't have to share the problems of the black man. All the white man has to do is go in and tutor the black once a week and then go back home to his scotch with a soothed conscience. So what does the white "liberal" do? Especially the white liberal at DePaul? In the words of Hammond, "He should leave are always naturally opposed to a black bottom (people), not just the bottom, or just man's goals. Everywhere a black person the top." lives in a black community, it is considered a 'ghetto.' Usually the ghetto is divided into three distinct worlds: the middle-class black, the transition area, and the poor black." This is illustrated on the West Side and the South Side of Chicago. "The black man has always been taught white ideas which are not relevant to the black community. Thus the black man becomes a freak, he can't make it with the blacks or whites. These organizations are not helping now." Mayfield, 'there's no such thing as Black explained the rationale behind community centralization: "Society has always taken black people out of their community so they're ineffective in their own community." Let the black people run their own black education. We were always told that we would get something by coming to college, but we weren't accepted because of it. The community should have a significant part in the education in the neighborhood school. The education should come from the top (administration) and the The major feeling is that the boycotts in Chicago are necessary and effective but insufficient. The continuation of boycotts versus stronger tactics fully depends on how quickly Supt. Redmond acts on the situation. For all BSU members, the symbolic protests of Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the Mexico City Olympics was "beautiful" but their^expulsion from the team for raising a clenched fist to the national anthem was "bullshit." ^ne first is a sign of anger, of frustration, of secession from America's present standards. In the words of Lindsay Robinson: "I see fascism growing when people scream law and order instead of equality and justice, when a man can run all over Alabama screaming nigger, nigger, nigger, when he can be hypocritical to the extent of defying and disrespecting the highest law in the country by standing in the door of the University of Alabama and then in the same breath cry 'law and order.' White America in the long run is just as much Black America. Separatism could be a blessing to black people." While separatism may be repugnant to some, that's where it's at now —like everything else, it's probably worth a try. NOVEMBER B, 13BS Tomi Ungerer Who Wins?

VOLUME 2, NUMBER 3 MICHAEL IVERS The people of this country have elected Richard Nixon. He now mist implement a Vietnam policy and concurrently an economic policy. And, of course, he will have to choose a black policy. Future policy toward the black situation in America could be the most vital step ever taken to decide the fate of America. For it will eventually result in peaceful integration (possibly peaceful segregation, but that is doubtful) or civil war. And what of the situation of the blacks in university life? The typical reply might accurately be "I didn't know we had one." That kind of attitude is dangerous. Obviously there is a black situation at DePaul, or the Black Student Union (BSU) would not have .been formed last May. The president of the BSU is James Hammond, who joined the BSU because he had "joined other organizations, but always felt like a duck out of water." This is really not hard to imagine if one can just for a moment empathize with Hammond or other black people. "I joined the BSU to fulfill myself. Black people have been separated from white people. To include a black person in an organization is to accept him for what he is. The BSU does this." IJoes this mean that a black person finds it hard to be himself, to feel human, in a white organization, in a white society? Maybe. Erwin Mayfield, the vice-president of the BSU, said: "I felt as a black student a need for something to relate to." The BSU has given all of its members that greatly needed sense of identity, A sense of identity that the black person is finally receiving in the "black power movement" after waiting for hundreds of years. A "black power movement* that Still surrounded by the same white-washed walls of the past, however, few tactics of co-existence remain. Hammond feels that "what we're really trying to do is to change the attitude that black people have toward other black people and society. The system separates the educated black people from the uneducated black people and from white people. The BSU is attempting to illustrate the fact that blacks can create, that blacks can work together, and more effectively as one. We are getting outside activities going in order to develop the mind of the black person. The BSU contributes to the movement of raising second-class citizens to first-class citizens. The purpose of activities like the upcoming Miss Sweetheart of BSU contest is to establish pride in the black person. Possibly more white students will see the black student working, and thus their respect for him will be strengthened." |t is natural that the educated black be apart from both the uneducated black and the white. Our present social structure has already forced the degree of separation. The BSU may very well be achieving its goals, but is it actually gaining the respect it desires Is the "black power black pride movement" gaining the respect of the white people in general, or are the wjites being turned off by such movements? Is the white man afraid that the black man may achieve his deserved equality—that he will get his power? White people keep crying that the black man wants too much, that he doesn't know when to stop, that he's only hurting himself with the "black power movement." The truth of the matter is that white people brings black people together and eventually teachers, black curricula, et al., the replies ahead to equality with the white man, not a "black power movement" that necessarily calls for violence. a journal of issues and events for depaul university Black vs. White are scared. And the majority fear a figure the BSU alone, not making accusations, etc. that is so remote that he is no more than This would be the best way to foster the abstract stereotype of a George Wallace communication. The BSU asks white students rally. to let the blacks do their own thing, and it But in an interpretation of the black asks for the support of its activities (dances, movement today, the "We Shall Overcome" lectures, etc.) by the white student. We wish simplicity of integration-segregation is support as we support white activities, e.g. valid. For Hammond, "This is not a Biafra. We don't show up at some of the black-white clear-cut question. These dances because things there aren't suitable concepts are no longer adequate. The world to black students." is already separate." This fact comes out J^oes racism pervade the BSU or black clearly in elections. Usually one politician movements in general? "Constitutionally concentrates on the black votes (he's usually no," according to Hammond. "The BSU is the Bridgeport-trademarked incumbent who needed to provide the atmosphere for black insures their jobs), while the other one people. White people propogate racism. The centers on the white suburban backlash vote, system gives us racism. White organizations Although many times it is the poor and allow the black person to participate, but middle-class whites who hate the black man they don't give him the necessary conditions more than the rich white, because the black to work under. According to the constitution person is a more immediate danger to him. a white could join the BSU (he would be Hammond continued by explaining his own voted on by all members, and a two-thirds conflict of roles: "At DePaul I am an majority vote would be necessary for him to be admitted it is the same for all aspiring members), but he would not feel welcome or be let to feel welcome. For integrationist, at home I am a segregationist. I think that almost every study can identify with this difficult and complex situation. I am optimistic about the development of the already separated black Racism (racism means a feeling of person. Dealing with the present situation superiority of one race over another) is my primary concern." This is exactly because black people never think that they're what organizations like the BSU are doing, better than whites, only equal to them. Don't Mayfield is "not really for integration, confuse racism with prejudice." It's time for black people to do their own The Chicago public school boycott mounts thing." Lindsay Robinson "would have gone by the day and as it does, the questions and to an all-black school if I had to do it distinctions become much more critical, again." Ron Douglas believes that everyone Decentralization of the school system has has a "right to integrate" but that he is a become the major thrust of the N.Y. Ocean "Black American, in that order. That's the Hill-Brownsville boycott which has been way it was presented to me.® And no one deadlocked since the beginning of the school could honestly deny that either. year. Jn response to University actions on last Hammond May's BSU demands for more black range from "no comment to mere tokenism. Concerning an Interracial Council of Students at DePaul, Hammond produces an interesting and important answer: "No. Any organization that has had white people in it has never done anything significant to help black people." The case is quite similar to "Upward Bound," the federally financed education program: "White goals This may be telling the integrationist where to go. But every word is solidly sensible. For the inner-city black, what can the suburban honkie teach him about love. It's easy for the white man, who knows who his parents are, who krows where his next meal is coming from, who sleeps in a bed rather than on the floor, who doesn't have to worry about discrimination, who doesn't have to kill rats every night before bed— it's easy for him to preach love. He doesn't have to share the problems of the black man. All the white man has to do is go in and tutor the black once a week and then go back home to his scotch with a soothed conscience. So what does the white "liberal" do? Especially the white liberal at DePaul? In the words of Hammond, "He should leave are always naturally opposed to a black bottom (people), not just the bottom, or just man's goals. Everywhere a black person the top." lives in a black community, it is considered a 'ghetto.' Usually the ghetto is divided into three distinct worlds: the middle-class black, the transition area, and the poor black." This is illustrated on the West Side and the South Side of Chicago. "The black man has always been taught white ideas which are not relevant to the black community. Thus the black man becomes a freak, he can't make it with the blacks or whites. These organizations are not helping now." Mayfield, 'there's no such thing as Black explained the rationale behind community centralization: "Society has always taken black people out of their community so they're ineffective in their own community." Let the black people run their own black education. We were always told that we would get something by coming to college, but we weren't accepted because of it. The community should have a significant part in the education in the neighborhood school. The education should come from the top (administration) and the The major feeling is that the boycotts in Chicago are necessary and effective but insufficient. The continuation of boycotts versus stronger tactics fully depends on how quickly Supt. Redmond acts on the situation. For all BSU members, the symbolic protests of Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the Mexico City Olympics was "beautiful" but their^expulsion from the team for raising a clenched fist to the national anthem was "bullshit." ^ne first is a sign of anger, of frustration, of secession from America's present standards. In the words of Lindsay Robinson: "I see fascism growing when people scream law and order instead of equality and justice, when a man can run all over Alabama screaming nigger, nigger, nigger, when he can be hypocritical to the extent of defying and disrespecting the highest law in the country by standing in the door of the University of Alabama and then in the same breath cry 'law and order.' White America in the long run is just as much Black America. Separatism could be a blessing to black people." While separatism may be repugnant to some, that's where it's at now —like everything else, it's probably worth a try. NOVEMBER B, 13BS Tomi Ungerer Who Wins?